[Ord. #2004-01, § 1]
A. 
There is hereby established, pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1, et seq., in the Township of Plumsted a Planning Board of nine (9) members consisting of Class 1, Class II, Class III and Class IV members.
B. 
Class I, Class II, Class III and Class IV members shall be appointed in accordance with the requirements of the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-23, as amended.
C. 
Terms of office. The terms of office of the members of the Planning Board shall be as set forth in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-23, as amended.
D. 
Alternate members. The Mayor may appoint, with the advice and consent of the Township Committee, four (4) alternates to the Planning/Land Use Board. Alternate members shall be designated at the time of appointment by the Mayor as Alternate No. 1, Alternate No. 2, Alternate No. 3, and Alternate No. 4. The terms of alternate members shall be as set forth in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-23.1, as amended.
E. 
All appointment of Class IV members and alternates to the Planning Board shall commence as of January 1 of the year of appointment and shall terminate on December 31 of the last year of the term of the appointment.
F. 
Vacancies. If a vacancy of any class shall occur otherwise than by expiration of the term, it shall be filled by appointment, as provided above, for the unexpired term.
G. 
Designation of officers. The Planning Board shall elect a chairman and vice chairman from its Class IV membership. It shall also select a secretary who may or may not be a member of the Planning Board or a municipal employee.
A. 
The Attorney to the Planning Board shall be an attorney other than the Municipal Attorney and shall be appointed by the Planning Board for a term of one (1) year commencing January 1. Appointment to such office made after January 1 of any year shall be limited to the calendar year, and such term shall terminate on December 31 of the following year of appointment. The Attorney to the Board shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by contract between the Attorney and the Board.
B. 
The Planning Board may also employ or contract for and fix the compensation of experts and other staff and services as it may deem necessary.
C. 
The Board shall not authorize expenditures which exceed, exclusive of gifts or grants, the amount appropriated by the governing body for its use.
[Ord. #2000-04, § 1]
The Planning Board is authorized to adopt bylaws governing its procedural operation. It shall also have the following powers and duties:
A. 
To make and adopt and from time-to-time reexamine and/or amend a Master Plan for the physical development of the Township in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-28 and N.J.S.A. 40:55D-89.
B. 
To exercise subdivision control and site plan review in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the Municipal Land Use Law of 1975, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1, et seq.
C. 
To consider and make a report to the governing body within thirty-five (35) days after referral as to any proposed development regulation submitted to it, pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-26a, and also to pass upon other matters specifically referred to the Planning Board by the Zoning Board of Adjustment, pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-26b.
D. 
Variances and issuance of permits.
(1) 
Whenever the proposed development requires the approval, pursuant to this Part 1, of a subdivision, site plan or conditional use, but not a variance pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70d, to grant, to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions as the Board of Adjustment, variances pursuant to Subsection 57C of the Municipal Land Use Law, provided that for applications in the Pinelands Area variances granted which constitute waivers from the Comprehensive Master Plan shall first be subject to review and approval by the Pinelands Commission.
(2) 
In accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-34, to direct the issuance of a permit for a building or structure in the bed of a mapped street or public drainageway, flood control basin or public area reserved pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-32.
(3) 
In accordance with the provision of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-36, to direct the issuance of a permit for a building or structure not related to a street.
(4) 
Whenever relief is requested pursuant to this subsection, notice of a hearing on the application for development shall include reference to the request for a variance or direction for issuance of a permit as the case may be. The developer may elect to submit a separate application requesting approval of the variance or direction of the issuance of a permit and a subsequent application for any required approval of a subdivision, site plan or conditional use. The separate approval of the variance or direction of the issuance of a permit shall be conditioned upon the grant of all required subsequent approvals by the Planning Board. No such subsequent approval shall be granted unless the approval can be granted without substantial impairment of the intent and purpose of the Zone Plan and Zoning Ordinances.
E. 
To annually prepare a program of municipal capital improvement projects projected over a term of six (6) years, and amendments thereto, and recommend the same to the governing body.
F. 
To perform such other advisory duties as are assigned to it by ordinance or resolution of the governing body for the aid and assistance of said body or other agencies or officers.
G. 
To serve as the Historic, Archaeological and Cultural Preservation Board ("HAC Board") with the powers and duties prescribed pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:50-6.153.
H. 
The Planning Board pursuant to the provision of P.L. 1994, Chapter 186 approved on December 23, 1994 shall exercise, to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions, all powers of a board of adjustment; but the Class I and the Class III members shall not participate in the consideration of applications for development which involve relief pursuant to subsection d of section 57 of P.L. 1975, c. 291 (C.40:55D-70).
A. 
The Board shall adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions and purposes of this Article. In the issuance of subpoenas, administration of oaths and taking of testimony, the provisions of the County and Municipal Investigations Law of 1953 (N.J.S.A. 2A:67A-1, et seq.) shall apply.
B. 
When any hearing before a Planning Board shall carry over two (2) or more meetings, a member of the Board who was absent for one (1) or more of the meetings shall be eligible to vote on the matter upon which the hearing was conducted, notwithstanding his absence from one (1) or more of the meetings; provided, however, that such Board member has available to him a transcript or recording of the meeting from which he was absent and certifies in writing to the Board that he has read such transcript or listened to such recording.